34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
34 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
34 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
34 He shows me how to fight; I can bend a bronze bow!
34 He teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
34 He trains my hands for battle; he strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow.
1441 Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
1441 Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
1441 Blessed be God, my mountain, who trains me to fight fair and well.
1441 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle--
1441 Praise the Lord, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle.
(Read Psalm 144:1-8)
When men become eminent for things as to which they have had few advantages, they should be more deeply sensible that God has been their Teacher. Happy those to whom the Lord gives that noblest victory, conquest and dominion over their own spirits. A prayer for further mercy is fitly begun with a thanksgiving for former mercy. There was a special power of God, inclining the people of Israel to be subject to David; it was typical of the bringing souls into subjection to the Lord Jesus. Man's days have little substance, considering how many thoughts and cares of a never-dying soul are employed about a poor dying body. Man's life is as a shadow that passes away. In their highest earthly exaltation, believers will recollect how mean, sinful, and vile they are in themselves; thus they will be preserved from self-importance and presumption. God's time to help his people is, when they are sinking, and all other helps fail.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 18:34
Commentary on Psalm 18:29-50
(Read Psalm 18:29-50)
When we praise for one mercy, we must observe the many more, with which we have been compassed all our days. Many things had contributed to David's advancement, and he owns the hand of God in them all, to teach us to do likewise. In verse 32, and the following verses, are the gifts of God to the spiritual warrior, whereby he is prepared for the contest, after the example of his victorious Leader. Learn that we must seek release being made through Christ, shall be rejected. In David the type, we behold out of trouble through Christ. The prayer put up, without reconciliation Jesus our Redeemer, conflicting with enemies, compassed with sorrows and with floods of ungodly men, enduring not only the pains of death, but the wrath of God for us; yet calling upon the Father with strong cries and tears; rescued from the grave; proceeding to reconcile, or to put under his feet all other enemies, till death, the last enemy, shall be destroyed. We should love the Lord, our Strength, and our Salvation; we should call on him in every trouble, and praise him for every deliverance; we should aim to walk with him in all righteousness and true holiness, keeping from sin. If we belong to him, he conquers and reigns for us, and we shall conquer and reign through him, and partake of the mercy of our anointed King, which is promised to all his seed for evermore. Amen.